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Definition of Bignoniad
1. Noun. Any woody plant of the family Bignoniaceae.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bignoniad
Literary usage of Bignoniad
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Notes of a Botanist on the Amazon & Andes: Being Records of Travel on the by Richard Spruce, Alfred Russel Wallace (1908)
"... which was everywhere in flower. A Bignonia with large yellow flowers is also
abundant on these two days. Another bignoniad ..."
2. Torreya by Torrey Botanical Club (1915)
"... the giant bignoniad, Spathodea campanulata, is planted in many places, and
keeps the ground beneath littered with its huge red flowers. ..."
3. The Floricultural Cabinet, and Florists Magazine by Joseph Harrison (1850)
"It is of the bignoniad order. The flowers are produced in terminal panicles, each
blossom being 2^ inches long, trumpet shaped, a pink colour stained with ..."
4. The Floral World and Garden Guide by Shirley Hibberd (1864)
"... argüía is a beautiful greenhouse bignoniad, scarcely known. It is an evergreen,
and forms a shrub twelve to twenty inches high, and resembles a Pents- ..."
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